Glitz Design: Adore Photo Frame

Today is my day over on the Glitz Design blog. I am sharing a couple of decor pieces I created using their Love Nest collection. As always, I am sharing them here as well.

The colors in the Love Nest collection are perfect for love inspired project. For this frame, I re-faced a small box frame that I found at my local Target store on clearance for $2.50. I applied Damask patterned paper to the front and sides of the frame using Claudine Hellmuth Multi Medium.

To get a faded effect with the stamping, I lightly brushed areas on my inked stamp with a dry towel to remove some of the ink.

On the front of the frame, I used the music scale stamp from the Distressing 2 stamp set using Brushed Corduroy Distress ink. If you are stamping with a detail heavy clear stamp like this one using such a light colored transparent ink, I would reccomend stamping first on scrap paper to make sure you have the design oriented correctly. It has been way too many years since I read sheet music, but as I look at it now, I think I stamped them all upside down. (sigh)

I used the same ink to all of the edges on the frame and brought the ink in from the edges in a few places to blend it with the stamping. In the top left corner, I added a swallow Glitzers sticker.

In the lower corner, I layered a Love Nest Glitzers frame onto Love Nest Whatnot. I distressed the edges of the Whatnot with a Distrezz It All tool and inked them using Brushed Corduroy. I added a cluster of flowers tied off with a bit of brown Tulle and crinkled ribbon. I added two green flourish Love Nest Glitzers with the flowers to look like leaves. I finished off the cluster with a Love Nest Rub On phrase applied to a scrap piece of a previously used Whatnot that I had trimmed.

To create the flowers, I die cut a piece of Love Nest Paper Layers using the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die. I spritzed the flowers with a pink shade of Glimmer Mist. When dry, I added Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink to the edges. I lightly distressed the petals with the Distrezz It All tool. I folded two flowers into a cone shape and wrapped the tip with floral wire to create a stem.

For my second project, I re-covered an small wooden jewelry box that I found on clearance at Hobby Lobby for $5.00. I used the Love Nest Polka patterned paper (the dots were a perfect match to the original color of the box) to cover the top lid and the drawer fronts.

On the top of the lid, I layered several elements together to add decoration. The base layer is a large Love Nest Peek-a-Boo. The print on the piece is bright red. The reverse side of the print is pinkish and much softer looking so I place it print side down. On top of the Peek-a-Boo, I added a Love Nest Whatnot to which I applied a couple of Love Nest rose Rub Ons. The next layer is another Peek-a-Boo. I added a phrase to a scrap of patterned paper using the brown Teeny Alpha stickers. I stapled the strip onto the top of the piece and adhered it all to the top of my box.

Comments

Great projects! I really like the little flowers on the first project. A new “twist” for using the die cuts. It’s got me thinking….
I love little boxes with drawers. I can’t resist them. I’m glad to see someone else so inclined. The embellishment on top is beautiful.